As the hardworking, recently recalled Massillon Review staff was cleaning up around the office, and dusting out the cobwebs, trying to get things spic and span in anticipation of Santa Frank's Christmas Eve visit, we got to talking about how you get to be City Treasurer when the current treasurer retires before his term is up.
Longtime City Treasurer Paul Lambert is retiring at the end of the year, but he has one year left on his elected four year term.
So, how does someone get to be treasurer for that last year?
As you know, the Review has whole heartedly endorsed the candidacy of Massillon's former First Lady for Life, the calm, the cool, the collected, Joy Cicchinelli.
We tasked our newly re-employed legal team to research the issue.
According to the crack Massillon Review legal team, an appointment to the soon to be vacant treasurer's seat will be made by the Democratic Party, as the departing treasurer is a Democrat;
"The county central committee of the political party with which the last occupant of the office was affiliated, acting through its members who reside in the city where the vacancy occurs, shall appoint a person to hold the office and to perform the duties thereof until a successor is elected and has qualified..."
This may be a bit of a difficulty for our endorsed candidate, as her husband, The Extraordinary One, actively supported Republican candidates in the last municipal elections.
A difficult obstacle for us to overcome, but not impossible...
Now, according to our crack legal team, the Democratic Party has 45 days in which to choose a replacement treasurer.
So, the question becomes, who gets to be treasurer until the Democratic Party chooses a treasurer?
And this is where it gets interesting;
"The mayor of the city may appoint a person to hold the city office of director of law, auditor, or treasurer as an acting officer and to perform the duties thereof between the occurrence of the vacancy and the time when the person appointed by the central committee qualifies and takes the office."
The mayor of the city may appoint a person to hold the city office... of treasurer.
If Joy Cicchinelli would want to be appointed as the acting treasurer, perhaps giving her a leg up with the Democratic Party selection, she would need Kathy Catazaro-Perry to appoint her.
Probably not gonna happen.
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